My parents were helping me move in to my apartment and I handed my mother my keys since I was going to be (trying, it didn't end up fitting through the door) moving a large heavy couch. The outside door locks automatically and she left the keys on my table. I had to buzz a neighbor I'd never even met and say I'd locked myself out. Never again shall I trust my mother with my keys!

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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:16 pm

Shopped till she dropped

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:36 pmPosts: 1693Location: the land of too much wine and wind

CQ and Mars,Thank you for being so open and generally informative about trans issues. I have learned so much from you two and the PPK at large in the last few years. You have opened my awareness in so many ways. You are both amazing.Puffy hearts and kitten kisses always,<3 KK

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Yeah, I mean I definitely don't reccomend saying this kind of thing to anyone, but for me , I just laughed! She was super nice and actually seemed super excited, medically/professionally. Seemed like she's all amped up to go learn more about Trans people. I however do tend to be in the rarer category of person that wouldn't care about that kind of thing. Hah, at the end of the exam she said 'and your current partner is male?' I said, 'male, but with female anatomy' and she said 'OH My God, you're blowing my mind!' Haha. I just laughed again.

I really hope she is an excellent read of personalities! It's great that it was ok with you, but if she reads someone wrong, that could really be disastrous.

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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:56 pm

Thinks chickens are assholes

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:17 pmPosts: 5863

The Mr's mother text him yesterday to say she thinks I'm "all round gorgeous", his eldest son feels he can identify with me (he's very artistic), his youngest son has decided he wants to makes vegan pancakes with me some day and his daughter has decided to search for vegan eggs to make this happen. I think I have successfully infiltrated the clan.

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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:17 pm

Chard Martyr

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:49 pmPosts: 9636Location: SW Desert, USA

fezza wrote:

The Mr's mother text him yesterday to say she thinks I'm "all round gorgeous", his eldest son feels he can identify with me (he's very artistic), his youngest son has decided he wants to makes vegan pancakes with me some day and his daughter has decided to search for vegan eggs to make this happen. I think I have successfully infiltrated the clan.

Yeah, I mean I definitely don't reccomend saying this kind of thing to anyone, but for me , I just laughed! She was super nice and actually seemed super excited, medically/professionally. Seemed like she's all amped up to go learn more about Trans people. I however do tend to be in the rarer category of person that wouldn't care about that kind of thing. Hah, at the end of the exam she said 'and your current partner is male?' I said, 'male, but with female anatomy' and she said 'OH My God, you're blowing my mind!' Haha. I just laughed again.

I'm going to guess that the doctor read Mars' personality right or that they have the sort of relationship that allows for this sort of conversation. My OB/GYN makes hilarious jokes (often at the expense of the pharmaceutical industry). My first gyn was medical director of a Planned Parenthood. He used to tell me about some of the threats and protestors. He saw a population that include all sort of people including trans people. He was blunt and matter of fact. Someone who was soft and extra-sweet would have driven me insane.

What's appropriate depends on the people involved in the conversation.

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Thanks guys! <3 I reckon I can bring at least one of them over to the dark side before they get wise to me :P

Only crassholes would dislike the Fezza! They best like you!

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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 7:46 pm

Kitchens Planning Manchester

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:28 pmPosts: 2537Location: Connecticut

fezza wrote:

The Mr's mother text him yesterday to say she thinks I'm "all round gorgeous", his eldest son feels he can identify with me (he's very artistic), his youngest son has decided he wants to makes vegan pancakes with me some day and his daughter has decided to search for vegan eggs to make this happen. I think I have successfully infiltrated the clan.

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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:58 pm

Nailed to the V

Joined: Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:50 pmPosts: 565Location: Sun City

*sigh* I really hate it when I feel the need to remind people on FB that just because they might not like the president or agree with him, it doesn't mean that it's okay to use racial slurs or to compare him to Hitler, since that's really offensive to a huge number of people, not just Obama. I really just need to de-friend some of these people that I used to go to high school with.

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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:16 pm

Invented Vegan Meringue

Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:30 pmPosts: 3584Location: Almost Boston

Current conversation with my mom (yes, we're in the same house and talking on fb chat.):

Her (completely out of nowhere): you're the cream in my coffee, you're the salt in my soup. You will always be my necessity, I'ld be lost without youMe: okay...Her: WJDA played that song everyday. They also played a song before they did birth announcements but I can't remember it.Me: okay, why are you telling me this?Her: I don't know, just poipped into my head. I think I am being poisoned by gas down here. [She means my dad's dog has horrible farts today.] poipped, i made a new word!Me: omg. you're such a weirdo.Her: say it, its fun! POIPPED, poipped, PoIpPeD!

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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 11:06 pm

Sick of Cupcakes

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:35 pmPosts: 6776Location: Norristown, PA

Vantine wrote:

Mars wrote:

Yeah, I mean I definitely don't reccomend saying this kind of thing to anyone, but for me , I just laughed! She was super nice and actually seemed super excited, medically/professionally. Seemed like she's all amped up to go learn more about Trans people. I however do tend to be in the rarer category of person that wouldn't care about that kind of thing. Hah, at the end of the exam she said 'and your current partner is male?' I said, 'male, but with female anatomy' and she said 'OH My God, you're blowing my mind!' Haha. I just laughed again.

I'm going to guess that the doctor read Mars' personality right or that they have the sort of relationship that allows for this sort of conversation. My OB/GYN makes hilarious jokes (often at the expense of the pharmaceutical industry). My first gyn was medical director of a Planned Parenthood. He used to tell me about some of the threats and protestors. He saw a population that include all sort of people including trans people. He was blunt and matter of fact. Someone who was soft and extra-sweet would have driven me insane.

What's appropriate depends on the people involved in the conversation.

I am telling you from my personal experience as a trangender person that health care professionals (and, just, people in general) feel free to say all kinds of outrageous things to transgender people that they would never think would be appropriate to say to cisgender people. I imagine it is possible that Mars's doctor just happens to be one of the ones who would normally never say something like that out of the context of correctly reading someone's personality or whatever, but frankly, that would be a pretty unlikely scenario. Not impossible, but unlikely. I would definitely not make the assumption that the doctor had some reason to believe it was appropriate to make such comments, other than that people just generally assume it's totally okay to say ridiculous things to transgender people.

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